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Age of Empathy

Ways the Universe Might End — But Not Today

Or how my cat is (not) responsible for the heat death of the universe

Mar 27

My cup of coffee, going cold.

Mar 27

Published in
E³ — Entertain Enlighten Empower

Are You Gazumping? Gazundering? Breaking the Chain?

Understanding the sometimes baffling British real estate terminology

3d ago

Are You Gazumping? Gazundering? Breaking the Chain?

3d ago

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Counter Arts

Aurorae Offers Flashes of Brilliance in New Media Art

This group show by CaptiArtX at the new art’otel Hoxton is flawed but still fascinating

Mar 30

Aurorae Offers Flashes of Brilliance in New Media Art

Mar 30

Spring in the Garden of Belonging

Finding a place in the place I wasn’t born

Mar 23

A plant finding it’s place in the garden.

Mar 23

‘Megalopolis’ Collapses Under Its Own Weight

With its tired tropes and empty characters, Coppola’s big ideas get buried beneath the rubble

Mar 20

Adam Driver as Cesar and Nathalie Emmanuel as Julia kiss atop a construction girder, in Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis.’ PHOTO: Courtesy of Lionsgate

Mar 20

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Counter Arts

Edvard Munch and the Portraits that Watched Over Him

The National Portrait Gallery shows us a more sociable Symbolist

Mar 18

Visitors observe Kate and Hugo Peris (1913) by Edvard Munch, displayed as part of the exhibition Edvard Munch Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery

Mar 18

Published in
E³ — Entertain Enlighten Empower

How the Modern Passport Took Over the World

The simplified story of this universal travel document

Mar 8

A broken photo of the author next to blue Canadian passports

Mar 8

Published in
Counter Arts

The Sweetest Psychopath — Why the Season 1 Finale of ‘The Day of the Jackal’ Is a Bullseye

Eddie Redmayne stars in the streaming remake of a classic, and interrogates our desire for perfect control

Feb 11

The Sweetest Psychopath — Why the Season 1 Finale of ‘The Day of the Jackal’ Is a Bullseye

Feb 11

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Counter Arts

‘Back to the Future: The Musical’ Makes a Satire of Itself at the Adelphi Theatre

And I wish I could go back in time to before I bought the tickets

Dec 12, 2024

Cory English and Vasco Emauz in ‘Back to the Future: The Musical.’

Dec 12, 2024

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The Memoirist

That Time My Father Came Home with a Lion

And no one seemed to think it was a terrible, terrible idea

Dec 10, 2024

A female lion cub lies in the grass, with an unseen boy holding the leash behind her. Only his left foot is visible.

Dec 10, 2024

Owen Schaefer

Owen Schaefer

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Born in a hollow log and raised by wolves. Now writing about the arts, culture, travel and the world.

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